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they are saying is detroit really bankrupt? >> there are a lot of people who will take issue with what detroit is trying to do. it is important to remember before they got here. they are responsible for their own on doing. until a couple years ago, if you are a public safety official in detroit, you could retire at 55 with 80% of your salary and health care. this is the day of reckoning. it is important that this be done right. this is the first city that is trying. dagen: that raises the issue. so many others have been thrown up their. those cities would not act, with day, jason, until it is clear that detroit can do this. >> that is why it is so important here. they are saying that this violates the constitution. you cannot reduce benefits for retirees. that violates the state constitution. what some of us are hoping is these contracts can be renegotiated. if they get away with protecting retiree benefits through this chapter nine filing, what you will see is other cities using chapter nine. we do not want it to happen. that
they are saying is detroit really bankrupt? >> there are a lot of people who will take issue with what detroit is trying to do. it is important to remember before they got here. they are responsible for their own on doing. until a couple years ago, if you are a public safety official in detroit, you could retire at 55 with 80% of your salary and health care. this is the day of reckoning. it is important that this be done right. this is the first city that is trying. dagen: that raises the...
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new york citnew york city to bee fate as detroit. dealing with the pension and health care cost that has mayor bloomberg calling the risk of a bankruptcy a real concern. connell: david lee miller joins us. >> consider this, detroit is the largest u.s. city to ever declare bankruptcy. up to $18 billion. a little more than three months time. they will elect a new mayor, just days ago mayor bloomberg had his words reverberated around new york. >> bloomberg says pension and health care cost contributing to the financial ruins threaten the economic stability. most new york city employees and retirees pay nothing for $6.3 billion in annual health insurance. workers pay little for pension that have taxpayers on the hook for $8 billion this year. spiegel in your city has 10,000 police officers retired were for under 40 and clayton pensions and they will collect the pensions for the rest of their lives. >> expired at least three years ago, the next mayor will be under pressure to win concessions. >> the unions have tried to wait it out. putti
new york citnew york city to bee fate as detroit. dealing with the pension and health care cost that has mayor bloomberg calling the risk of a bankruptcy a real concern. connell: david lee miller joins us. >> consider this, detroit is the largest u.s. city to ever declare bankruptcy. up to $18 billion. a little more than three months time. they will elect a new mayor, just days ago mayor bloomberg had his words reverberated around new york. >> bloomberg says pension and health care...
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chicago and detroit? i spent time in both places, anybody who have been to those places say chicago's nothing like detroit, and look at the reasons that it actually doesn't make sense they would be on the same path. chicago, different city than detroit in that there's a strong tax base, a growing population. detroit's population, you know, famously has slunk dramatically. there's companies moving into town, boeing recently relocated its corporate headquarters here, and it's also a multiindustry city, not like detroit with a single industry that drives the town, but here's how they are the same. pensions, it comes down to pensions. municipal pensions. chicago has four pension funds, short about $20 billion. they got a budget deficit of about three-quarters of a million dollars. moody's downgrade the the city, and it's not going to get better as time goes on. in 2015, a new state law requires even more to be put into the pension funds, and that could cause property tax increase of maybe a hundred to 150%. a
chicago and detroit? i spent time in both places, anybody who have been to those places say chicago's nothing like detroit, and look at the reasons that it actually doesn't make sense they would be on the same path. chicago, different city than detroit in that there's a strong tax base, a growing population. detroit's population, you know, famously has slunk dramatically. there's companies moving into town, boeing recently relocated its corporate headquarters here, and it's also a multiindustry...
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. >> most investors in the market viewed detroit as a 1-off. very unique circumstances. to your point there will be a likely protracted debate or legal battle about what they have to pay back the law will end up happening see the general obligation bondholders. at think if you look at the market more generally that news has weighed on the market along with higher interest rates. they have not done very well of recent fight. they may be challenged over the next couple of weeks due to seasonal. september is never a good month historically. coming out of that we feel like investors will come back. it is a place where you can still get yield. you generally have high quality investment. it still plays a very strong role in the muslim portfolio. ashley: an investor who is looking for yield that does not want that exposed to much risks to the increasing interest rates, what is my best ploy? >> it depends upon how you think about fixed-income in your portfolio. we have a lot of investors who have felt traditional, cork, fixed-income portfolios and thin
. >> most investors in the market viewed detroit as a 1-off. very unique circumstances. to your point there will be a likely protracted debate or legal battle about what they have to pay back the law will end up happening see the general obligation bondholders. at think if you look at the market more generally that news has weighed on the market along with higher interest rates. they have not done very well of recent fight. they may be challenged over the next couple of weeks due to...
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ashley: detroit to beijing, two thundershowers flat. new technology could make the world much smaller. we're life in a fox business exclusive. like l.a. to new york in 40 minutes. >>> breaking news on the monthly budget deficit. let's get straight to it and go to peter barnes in washington. peter? >> hey, ashley, deficit was $90 billion in july. 40% increase from the $70 billion deficit reported in july of 2012, but, for the fiscal year-to-date, the deficit is actually down by about that amount. it clocked in for the first 10 months of the fiscal year-ending july at $607 billion. that compares to $974 billion for the deficit for the same period last year. and, of course, this improvement in the deficit, is due to those higher tax increases that kicked in january 1st. higher payroll taxes as well as higher taxes on the wealthier earners. and lower spending here in washington caused by those sequester spending cuts. we have two more months left in the fiscal year and two more months in that fight before the next round of, the next round i
ashley: detroit to beijing, two thundershowers flat. new technology could make the world much smaller. we're life in a fox business exclusive. like l.a. to new york in 40 minutes. >>> breaking news on the monthly budget deficit. let's get straight to it and go to peter barnes in washington. peter? >> hey, ashley, deficit was $90 billion in july. 40% increase from the $70 billion deficit reported in july of 2012, but, for the fiscal year-to-date, the deficit is actually down by...
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ashley: detroit is trying to track its bankruptcy. we'll tell you what it could mean for creditors and retirees. but first, as we do this time of day let's take a look how oil is trading. essentially flat, a little lower, down 21 cents at $1906.74 a barrel. we'll be right back. -- $106.79 a barrel. [ male announcer ] how do you get your bounce? with the bounce dryer bar, my clothes will be fresh out of the drawer for weeks. and it's great when things last a long time. well...most things. [ male announcer ] how do you get your bounce? [ woman ] can't regret fresh. tracy: that time of day charles payne looking a oil in new guinea? >> papua, new guinea. this one is a little bit tough. everyone loves the oil and gas story, particularly natural gas. we love it. tracy: yeah. >> we understand it. papua, new guinea? tracy: a fair amount of people would have to leak on a map to figure out where new guinea is. ashley: to start. >> from a political point of view they have had issues. late last year they put the former prime minister on the board
ashley: detroit is trying to track its bankruptcy. we'll tell you what it could mean for creditors and retirees. but first, as we do this time of day let's take a look how oil is trading. essentially flat, a little lower, down 21 cents at $1906.74 a barrel. we'll be right back. -- $106.79 a barrel. [ male announcer ] how do you get your bounce? with the bounce dryer bar, my clothes will be fresh out of the drawer for weeks. and it's great when things last a long time. well...most things. [ male...